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Shinagawa-ku is a special ward in the in Japan. The ward refers to itself as Shinagawa City in English. It is home to ten embassies.

, Shinagawa had an estimated population of 380,293 and a population density of 16,510 persons per km2. The total area is 22.84 km2.

Shinagawa is also commonly used to refer to the business district around Shinagawa Station, which is not in Shinagawa Ward. This Shinagawa is in the Takanawa and Konan neighborhoods of Minato Ward, directly north of Kita-Shinagawa.

Geography
Shinagawa Ward includes natural uplands and lowlands, as well as reclaimed land. The uplands are the eastern end of the Musashino Terrace. They include Shiba-Shirokanedai north of the , Megurodai between the Meguro and Tachiai Rivers, and Ebaradai south of the Tachiai River.

The Ward lies on . Its neighbors on land are all special wards of Tokyo: Kōtō to the east, Minato to the north, Meguro to the west, and Ōta to the south.

Districts and neighborhoods
Shinagawa Ward consists of five areas, each consisting of multiple districts and neighborhoods:

  • Shinagawa District, including the former on the Tōkaidō.
  • 大崎 District, formerly a town of that name, stretching from Ōsaki Station to and .
  • 荏原 District, formerly a town of that name.
  • 大井 District, formerly a town of that name.
  • 八潮 District, consisting of reclaimed land, including Higashiyashio on .

Shinagawa Area
  • Higashishinagawa
  • Hiromachi
  • Kitashinagawa
  • Minamishinagawa
  • Nishishinagawa
Ōi Area
  • Ōi
  • Higashiōi
  • Katsushima
  • Minamiōi
  • Nishiōi
Ōsaki Area

Ebara Area
  • Ebara
  • Futaba
  • Hatanodai
  • Higashinakanobu
  • Hiratsuka
  • Koyama
  • Koyamadai
  • Nakanobu
  • Nishinakanobu
  • Togoshi
  • Yutakachō
Yashio Area
  • Yashio
  • Higashiyashio

History
Most of Tokyo east of the Imperial Palace is on . A large proportion of the reclamation took place during the , when Shinagawa-juku was the first (post town) in the "53 Stations of the Tōkaidō" that a traveler would reach after setting out from to on the Tōkaidō. The Tokugawa shogunate maintained the Suzugamori execution grounds in Shinagawa.

Following the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the han system, Shinagawa Prefecture was instituted in 1869. The prefectural administration was to be set up in the Ebara District, but in 1871 Shinagawa Prefecture was integrated into . In 1932, during the reorganisation of the municipal boundaries of following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, a smaller version of Shinagawa Ward was created. On March 15, 1947, this was merged with the neighboring Ebara Ward to create the present Shinagawa Ward.

The Ward's historic post-town function is retained today with several large hotels near the train station offering 6,000 rooms, the largest concentration in Tokyo.

The Tōkaidō Shinkansen high-speed rail line began serving Shinagawa Station in 2003.

Politics and government
Shinagawa is run by an assembly of 40 elected members.

Embassies in Shinagawa

Economy
Corporate headquarters
File:JAL Building.jpg|Japan Airlines File:Nikon HQ2.jpg|Nikon File:Sega HQ 2018 2.jpg|Sega Sammy Holdings

Former economic operations
had its headquarters and related facilities in Kitashinagawa from 1947, the next year of its founding, until 2007. They were relocated to Minato, Tokyo, and the site was redeveloped into an upscale residential area and office buildings. In 2006, Namco Bandai Games moved into a building that had built in Higashishinagawa in 1992, and occupied it until 2016.

Places
  • Museums
  • Shopping District
  • Shopping District "PALM"
  • Historic sites
    • Former Tōkaidō Road
    • Former
    • Site of Hamakawa Gun Battery
  • Parks
    • Rinshi-no-mori Park
    • , site of a daimyō's villa
    • , site of a daimyō's villa
  • (Seven Lucky Gods in Ebara area)
    • Tōkai-ji
  • Churches
    • Meguro Catholic Church (St. Anselm's Church)" ご案内." カトリック目黒教会. February 8, 2016. Retrieved on April 8, 2016.
    • 's Church, Tokyo 's Church – Anglican churches
    • Christ Shinagawa Church" 品川教会の信仰." キリスト品川教会. 2014. Retrieved on April 8, 2016. – church
    • Shinagawa Church," 教会の案内." 品川バプテスト教会. Retrieved on April 8, 2016. Oi Baptist Church" TOP." 大井バプテスト教会. 2016. Retrieved on April 8, 2016.

Education
Higher education
  • Rissho University
  • Seisen University
  • Tokyo Health Care University
  • Sugino Fashion College
  • Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology – graduate school
  • – college of technology ( kōsen)

Primary and secondary education
Public elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Shinagawa Ward Board of Education. Public high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education.

  • Metropolitan high schools
  • Private high schools
    • affiliated to the Bunkyo University
    • (plans to become coeducational in 2023, with the new name Shinagawa Gakugei High School (品川学藝高等学校))
    • St. Hilda's School ()
    • , formerly Ono Gakuen Girls' Junior High and Senior High School (小野学園女子中学・高等学校)
  • International schools
    • Canadian International School in Tokyo" Access." Canadian International School in Tokyo. Retrieved on October 29, 2014. "〒141–0001 5-8-20, Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo"
    • KAIS International School
  • Special education schools
    • Tokyo Metropolitan Shinagawa Special Needs Education School – public school for intellectually disabled children
    • – private

Municipal combined elementary and junior high schools:

Municipal junior high schools:

  • Ebara No. 1 Junior High School (荏原第一中学校)
  • Ebara No. 5 Junior High School ()
  • Ebara No. 6 Junior High School (荏原第六中学校)
  • Fujimidai Junior High School ()
  • Hamakawa Junior High School (浜川中学校)
  • Osaki Junior High School (大崎中学校)
  • Suzugamori Junior High School (鈴ヶ森中学校)
  • Togoshidai Junior High School ()
  • Tokai Junior High School ()

Municipal elementary schools:

Transport
Important railway stations

Shinagawa Station is in fact located in neighboring Minato but also serves the northern part of Shinagawa, and is a stop on the high-speed Tōkaidō Shinkansen line.

Rail
  • East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
    • : Ōsaki, Gotanda and Meguro Stations
    • Keihin-Tōhoku Line: Ōimachi Station
    • Saikyō Line: Ōsaki Station
    • Tōkaidō Main Line: does not stop at the stations in Shinagawa
    • : Nishi-Ōi Station
    • Shōnan-Shinjuku Line: Ōsaki and Nishi-Ōi Stations
  • Tokyu Corporation (Tōkyū)
    • Tōkyū Meguro Line: , Fudō-mae, Musashi-Koyama and Nishi-Koyama Stations
    • Tōkyū Ōimachi Line: Shimo-Shinmei and Togoshi-kōen, , Ebaramachi and Hatanodai Stations
    • Tōkyū Ikegami Line: Gotanda, Ōsaki-Hirokōji, Togoshi-Ginza, Ebara-Nakanobu and Hatanodai Stations
  • Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit (): Tennōzu Isle, Shinagawa Seaside, Ōimachi and Ōsaki Stations
  • : Tennōzu Isle and Ōi Keibajō Mae Stations
  • Keikyu Corporation (Keikyū)
    • Keikyū Main Line: Kitashinagawa, Shimbamba, Aomono-yokochō, , Tachiaigawa and Ōmorikaigan Stations
    • Namboku Line: Meguro Station
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei)
    • Mita Line: Meguro Station
    • Asakusa Line: Gotanda, and Nakanobu Stations

Road
  • (Shutokō)
    • Route 1 "Haneda Sen"
    • Route 2 "Meguro Sen"
    • "Wangan Sen"
    • Central Circular Route "Chūō Kanjō Sen"
  • National highways
    • Route 1 "Sakurada Dōri", "Dai-Ni Keihin"
    • Route 15 "Dai-Ichi Keihin"
    • Route 357 "Tokyo Wangan Dōro"

Shinagawa is also home to the main motor vehicle registration facility for central Tokyo (located east of Samezu Station). As a result, many license plates in Tokyo are labeled with the name "Shinagawa."

Major incidents / accidents
  • 1863 –
  • 1964 –
  • 1987 –
  • 1995 –

Sister cities
Shinagawa has sister-city relationships with in New Zealand, in Switzerland, and Portland, Maine, in the United States.
  • , New Zealand
  • , Switzerland
  • Portland, Maine, United States

Others
Shinagawa has an 教育交流都市 relationship with in China, and has concluded "hometown exchange agreements" () with Hayakawa in Yamanashi Prefecture and Yamakita in Kanagawa Prefecture.
  • , China
  • Hayakawa, Yamanashi, Japan
  • Yamakita, Kanagawa, Japan

Notable people from Shinagawa

Gallery
File:Togoshi park 2009.JPG|Entrance of Togoshi Park File:Goten-yama Hill, Kita Shinagawa 5Chome.jpg| at Goten-yama Hill in Kita-Shinagawa File:Katsushika Hokusai, Goten-yama hill, Shinagawa on the Tōkaidō, ca. 1832.jpg|Cherry blossoms at Goten-yama Hill by File:Shinagawa Harbor in Tokyo.jpg|Former Shinagawa Minato Port File:100 views edo 083.jpg|Shinagawa Minato Port by File:Higashi-Shinagawa at night.JPG|Night view of Higashi-Shinagawa

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